World Hunger Awareness Plans for Math I promise I did not forget about our math folks. I've discovered some lessons that cover basic mathematical concepts while addressing the important issue of World Hunger. Feel free to take a look, and I hope you will find some ideas for incorporating this school wide theme.
This lesson uses real life problem-solving activities to help students realize what it would be like, and what type of decisions would have to be made if you only had $2.00 a day to support your family. World Hunger Math Lesson.pdf
This math lessons applies the concepts of mean, median and mode to the World Hunger theme. There is an educational video game that goes along with the lesson and can be accessed at http://www.food-force.com/ It is a reality based game where a team of characters from the World Food Program are sent to an island to establish a food program. The website also includes and Interactive World Hunger Map that is helpful when teaching the theme. Eat Your Way to School Math Writing World Hunger Lesson.pdf
I promise I did not forget about our math folks. I've discovered some lessons that cover basic mathematical concepts while addressing the important issue of World Hunger. Feel free to take a look, and I hope you will find some ideas for incorporating this school wide theme.
This lesson uses real life problem-solving activities to help students realize what it would be like, and what type of decisions would have to be made if you only had $2.00 a day to support your family. World Hunger Math Lesson.pdf
This math lessons applies the concepts of mean, median and mode to the World Hunger theme. There is an educational video game that goes along with the lesson and can be accessed at http://www.food-force.com/ It is a reality based game where a team of characters from the World Food Program are sent to an island to establish a food program. The website also includes and Interactive World Hunger Map that is helpful when teaching the theme. Eat Your Way to School Math Writing World Hunger Lesson.pdf